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NEAR TOLEDO, Wash. – Two decades after Moe St. Jean's gold watch was stolen it was found along the roadside just outside his home.

Two months ago his stepson found the watch after a grader passed by, scooping away years of dirt and uncovering the watch.

"And he said, 'Dad, I found your watch.' And he said, 'The bracelet's gotta be pretty close by.' And I said, 'Well, the way the machinery's been going by you ain't gonna find that,'" Moe said.

But his stepson went and did find it.

Moe hadn't even gotten to wear the gold watch he'd been given by Weyerhaeuser in 1988 for 25 years of service before it was stolen in a burglary.

Moe believes the burglar dropped the watch as he fled. He later learned the thief was a neighbor's son. Moe never turned the boy in. He forgave him instead and never worried about whether he'd get that watch back again.